Television Today Highlights Old Westerns and Cops on New Season
Hollywood television critic notes the new season leans on familiar formats with CBS NBC and ABC airing westerns cops and provincial comedies. Gunsmoke The Virginian Bonanza and The Big Valley anchor CBS NBC and ABC schedules while other shows vie for viewers with established stars. The piece praises Gunsmoke for consistently strong teleplays and suggests incentive bonuses for top weekly writers.
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Nixon Camp Claims 700 Delegates For Nomination
John Mitchell said more than 700 Republican delegates are ready to back Nixon, well above the 667 needed for nomination. Rockefeller's camp countered, with Nelson Rockefeller stating Nixon has 500 to 550 votes, arguing the claim is not true.
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Flames Engulf Oil Tankwagon Driver Injured
Robert Stock, 36, of Waukon was hospitalized with second degree burns to his hands and arms after an oil tank truck he drove caught fire near a bulk plant in Waukon. A following car alerted the driver, who failed to stop until reaching the bulk plant. the cab burned but the oil tank was spared. The Waukon fire department responded.
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Humphrey frees delegates from unit rule in California trip
Vice President Hubert Humphrey told a Watts luncheon he will release all delegates bound to him by the unit rule and urged McCarthy to do likewise. He cited Massachusetts and Oregon delegations bound to rivals and pressed for an open convention with delegates voting their preference. He also earned James Brown’s endorsement amid a warm reception with 700 children attending a summer camp sendoff.
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UFO Scientists urge Congress to probe alien surveillance
Scientists told Congress there may be enough sightings to suggest Earth could be watched by extraterrestrials. They pressed for a formal UFO investigation, a board of inquiry, and an international clearinghouse to catalog reports, citing credible witnesses and patterns across regions.
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Legion proposes eternal flame memorial at Iowa Capitol
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa American Legion asks the planning commission to review a proposal for a permanent memorial at the capitol. W Earl Hall of Mason City chairs the legionous committee and proposes an eternal flame to honor the organization’s fiftieth anniversary next year.
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Iowa Corn Crop In Good to Excellent Shape
Iowa's corn crop is mostly good to excellent with drought in the southwest causing poor to fair conditions. About 65 percent of fields are three-quarters silked, soybean crop is good to excellent with 75 percent blooming, oats harvest 65 percent complete and yields generally good.
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Johnson adviser warns of recession risk amid tax rise
Arthur Okun, Johnson's chief economic adviser, warns of a real recession risk next year from the income tax surcharge and $6 billion federal spending cut. He says curing inflation in an overheated economy without cutting output and jobs is unprecedented and uncertain.
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Vote Poultry Inspection Be Upgraded
The senate voted 73 to 0 to upgrade inspection standards for 1.6 billion pounds of poultry sold domestically without federal seal. States have two years to meet federal levels or transfer duties to the federal government. Applies to non interstate poultry products, about 13 percent of output.
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Free Enterprise Edges Toward Tisou Conference
In Cierna Nad Tisou Czechoslovakia UPI reports a hint of free enterprise at the edge of the village as communist leaders meet. A steak meal at the nearby Tisza restaurant cost about 85 cents before the conference and about 1.80 dollars on Tuesday.
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